Baptisia Tinctoria
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General EN
Baptisia Tinctoria.
Wild Indigo (United States of America.) N. O. Leguminosae. Tincture of fresh root and its bark.
Clinical EN
Abortion, threatened. Apoplexy. Appendicitis. Biliousness. Brain softening. Cancer. Consumption. Diphtheria. Dysentery. Enteric fever. Eye, affections of. Gall-bladder, affections of. Gastric fever. Headache, bilious. Hectic fever. Hysteria. Influenza. Mumps. Oesophagus, stricture of. Plague. Relapsing fever. Sewer gas-poisoning. Shivering. Stomatitis. Tabes mesenterica. Tinea capitis. Tongue ulcerated. Typhus. Variola. Worms.
Characteristics EN
Baptisia has gained its greatest reputation as a remedy in typhoid fever, to the symptoms of which its pathogenesis strikingly corresponds. But it is only when it is used strictly in accordance with its symptoms that it will give successful results. When given as a matter of routine there are sure to be failures. Another disease in which it has proved specific in a large number of cases is epidemic influenza.
The besotted countenance, bleary eyes, aching head, sore throat, pains and soreness all over the body, and profound prostration which are present in all typical cases indicate Baptisia before any other remedy.
Among the chief symptoms of the remedy are the following: Stupor, falls asleep whilst being spoken to, confused as if drunk. Cannot keep his mind together, a wild wandering feeling. This scattered feeling is further exemplified in the illusion that the body is double; limbs separated and conversing with each other; can't sleep because body seems scattered about and cannot collect pieces. There is a dull heavy sensation in head with drowsiness and heavy eyelids.
The head feels large, with a numb feeling of head and face. Bruised headache; soreness as if in brain; bruised feeling in occiput; heavy feeling at base of brain with drawing in cervical muscles. Frontal headache with pressure at root of nose. The neck is tired, cannot hold head easy in any position.
The eyes cannot bear light; burn; are weak; painful on reading. Weight on eyes; eyeballs sore, lame on moving. Blear-eyed. Lids partially paralysed.
An illusion of smell "as of burnt feathers" has been caused and cured by it. Pain in left parotid gland. Flat, bitter taste. Tongue swollen; feels numb; speech difficult.
Is coated whitish yellow, and feels burnt or scalded. Dry, parched, brown centre; cracked and ulcerated. Canker sores in mouth. Ulcerations.
The sore-mouth of sucklings. Painlessness is a feature in the sore throat; putrid, painless, dark ulcers. Oesophagus feels constricted down to stomach; can only swallow liquids; cases of convulsive contraction of oesophagus and cardiac orifice, with regurgitation of food, have been cured by it. In one case, that of an old man, food could be swallowed and retained some days, but not on others.
He had always liked very hot food. The oesophagus was red and granular. Bapt. 12 cured. Nausea, retching and vomiting.
Sinking, gone feeling. Pain in liver; and especially in gall-bladder; in spleen; in right iliac region; in groins; glands swollen. Soreness of abdominal muscles and right iliac region. Fetid exhausting diarrhoea; dysentery in autumn or hot weather.
Worms. The urine is high-coloured, scanty, alkaline, fetid. Orchitis, squeezed pain in testes. Hale considers it specific in threatened miscarriage from mental depression, shock of bad news, watching, fasting, or low fever.
Patients in these conditions often complain of "dreadful sinking at the stomach," fetid breath and other symptoms of Baptisia. Many cases of phthisis are relieved by this remedy when the symptom and type of fever correspond. Lumbar backache. Feels as if lying on a board.
Pain in sacrum. Weakness of lower limbs. Left foot much prickling and numbness. Numbness and soreness are very general in Baptisia patients.
It has cured hysteria with prostration, numbness and fear of paralysis, wanted to die, rubbed hands continually, restlessness. The bed feels hard. There is excessive drowsiness. < On waking;
< walking; < open air; < cold wind; < autumn or hot weather.
Relations EN
Compare: Arn., Arsen., Bry.; Gels. (malaise, nervousness, flushed face, drowsiness, and muscular soreness); Ecchin. angust., Hyo., Kali mur., Lach., Mur. ac. and Nit. ac. (typhoid); Nux v., Op., Rhus t. Follows well: Ars. is followed well by: Tereb., Nit. ac., Ham. Silic has, like Bap., ability to swallow only liquids (like milk), but unlike Bap., Silic has aversion to milk. Ecchinacea angustifolia is perhaps its nearest analogue.
Mind EN
Stupor; falls asleep while being spoken to, or answering; heavy sleep till aroused; awakes only to again fall asleep in the midst of his answer, which he vainly endeavours to finish
Indisposed to think, want of power; mind seems weak, confused, as if drunk
Cannot confine his mind: a sort of wild, wandering feeling
Gloomy, unhappy state of mind
Body feels scattered about, tosses around to get the pieces together; cannot sleep because he cannot get pieces together
Mind wanders as soon as the eyes are closed
Mentally restless but too lifeless to move
Indisposed to think; inability to memorise.—< When thinking of pains in various parts of body.
Head EN
Vertigo, and weak feeling of entire system, esp. lower limbs and knees
Vertigo, with paralysis of eyelids
Peculiar feeling in head, which is never felt except during fever, excitement of brain such as precedes delirium
Dull, heavy pressive headache
Frontal headache, with pressure at root of nose; with feeling of fulness and tightness of whole head
Head feels large and heavy, with numbness of head and face
Sharp darts of pain in supraorbital nerve at foramen
Frequent sharp pains by spells in r. and l. temple
Soreness in the brain, worse on stooping
Top of head feels as if it would fly off
Dull, bruised feeling in occiput
Skin of forehead feels tight
Scalp feels sore
Sensation as if head swelling
Neck feels so tired she cannot hold her head easy in any position.
Eyes EN
Cannot bear light eyes burn but do not water
Feeling as if eyes would be pressed into head eyeballs feel sore, with great confusion of sight; cannot place anything until after looking at it a few seconds; everything appears to move
Severe pains in eyes on reading, compelling to stop
Bloated feeling of eyes, glistening; disposition to have them half closed
Eyeballs feel sore; sore and lame on moving them
Partial paralysis of lids.
Ears EN
Dull hearing
Delirium with almost complete deafness
Slight pain in l. parotid gland.
Nose EN
Dull pain at root of nose; crampy sensation
Sneezing and feeling as after a severe cold; slight bleeding from r. nostril of bright red blood, thick
Epistaxis of dark blood
Sensation of fulness; oedema of affected parts, esp. in choanae
Illusion of smell: as of burnt feathers.
Face EN
Face flushed, dusky, hot; dark-red, with a besotted expression.—Muscles of jaw rigid.
Mouth EN
Sordes on the teeth and lips
Tongue yellow along the centre; first white, with reddish papillae, followed by yellow-brown coating in centre, edges dark-red and shining; dry, brown down the centre; cracked, sore, ulcerated
Filthy taste with flow of saliva
Saliva rather abundant, somewhat viscid, tasting flat
Numb, pricking sensation in tongue
Putrid ulcers of the buccal cavity, with salivation
Mouth and tongue very dry in fevers
Putrid; offensive; faecal breath
Flat, bitter taste in mouth.
Throat EN
Pain and soreness of fauces
Constrictive feeling in throat, causing frequent efforts at deglutition
Throat feels swollen or full
Fauces dark-red; dark, putrid ulcers; tonsils and parotids swollen; absence of pain, and great prostration
Difficult deglutition; can only swallow water; oesophagus feels as if constricted from above down to stomach.
Stomach EN
Sinking, gone feeling at the stomach
Constant desire for water, with nausea and want of appetite
Great thirst
Loss of appetite; averse to nourishment and stimulants
All symptoms < from beer
At night, frequent pain in the epigastric region;
< from turning over, which he had to do all the time
Full feeling in stomach
Heavy gnawing in stomach
Burning heat rising up to throat
Pains in stomach; feeling there as of a hard substance.
Abdomen EN
Pain in liver, from r. lateral ligament to gall-bladder; can scarcely walk, it so augments pain in gall-bladder
Constant severe pain over gall-bladder
Constant pain in stomach and liver;
< walking; hot sensation; heavy aching in liver
Pain in liver region on going upstairs
Constant aching distress in stomach and umbilical region
Pain in region of spleen, with darts of pain in body, esp. in carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges
R. iliac region sensitive
Fulness and distension of the abdomen
Abdominal muscles sore on pressure
Sharp, rheumatic pains in groins, lasting a short time but returning after short interval, < from walking
Glands of l. groin swollen; painful on walking.
Stool And Anus EN
Frequent small, thin, dark, offensive, and acrid stools
Very fetid, exhausting diarrhoea; excoriating
Stool papescent, with large quantities of mucus; no pain
Dark-brown mucous and bloody stools, with tenesmus and typhoid tendency
Dysentery: rigors, pains in limbs and small of back; stools small, all blood, not very dark but thick; tenesmus; great prostration, brown tongue, low fever; in autumn or in hot weather, constipation; severe, with haemorrhoids; in afternoon
Stricture from piles.
Urinary Organs EN
Stitches in region of r. kidney; shooting in l. kidney
Burning when urinating
Urine rather scanty, dark-red colour; alkaline; fetid
Light-green urine.
Male Sexual Organs EN
Orchitis.—Pressing pain in l. testicle; cramp, as if squeezed.
Female Sexual Organs EN
Menses too early and too profuse
Excites abortion
Lochia acrid, fetid
Puerperal fever
Stomatitis materna.
Respiratory Organs EN
Aphonia
Larynx sore to touch, painful swallowing or speaking
Fetid breath
Awakes with great difficulty of breathing; the lungs feel tight and compressed; must have fresh air.
Chest EN
Constriction and oppression of the chest
Weight and oppression in precordial region, with a feeling of unsatisfied breathing; afternoon
Sharp pains in centre of sternum
Dull stitches in l. nipple.
Heart And Pulse EN
Feeling of greatly increased compass and frequency of heart's pulsations; seem to fill chest.—Pulse at first accelerated, afterward slow and faint.
Neck And Back EN
Neck tired; sore down neck
Stiffness and lameness of cervical muscles;
< on moving head
Back and hips very stiff, ache severely;
< walking
Feels as if lying on a board; changes position often, bed feels so hard;
< in region of sacrum
Dull sacral pain, compounded of a feeling as from a pressure and fatigue, from long stooping; soon extending round hips and down r. leg.
Limbs EN
Wandering pains in all the limbs with dizziness.—Drawing pains in arms and legs; aching in the limbs.
Upper Limbs EN
Constant twitching in l. deltoid
Pain in l. shoulder, extending down arm
Pains in bones of arms and hands
Numbness of l. hand and forearm, with prickling.
Lower Limbs EN
Soreness in front of thighs, < after sitting
Limbs weak and vacillating
L. foot numb, prickles
Burning of top of r. foot from toes to back of foot.
Generalities EN
Restless; does not sleep quietly; wants to be on the move Great languor; wants to lie down Tired, bruised, sick feeling in all parts of the body Weak and tremulous, as if recovering from a severe illness
Great weakness, esp. in lower limbs Prostration, with disposition of fluids to decompose Indescribable sick feeling all over Numbness prickling and paralytic feeling over the whole body, esp. l. side
Ulceration of mucous membranes, esp. of the mouth, with tendency to putrescence Discharges and exhalations fetid Sensation all over the body as if bruised or beaten Feels as if lying on a board; changes position, bed feels so hard makes him feel sore and bruised.
Skin EN
Great burning and heat in skin;
< in face
Livid spots over body and limbs
Eruption like measles or urticaria
Confluent small-pox, tardy eruption
Foul, gangrenous, eating syphilitic sores.
Sleep EN
Delirious stupor; falls asleep while answering a question or being talked to
Sleeps well till 2 or 3 a.m., then restless till morning
Drowsy, stupid, tired feeling; disposition to half close the eyes
Restless, with frightful dreams
Wants to get out of bed
Cannot sleep, limbs seem scattered about so.
Fever EN
Chilly going into the open air; chills over the back and lower limbs
Chilly, with soreness of body
Whole surface hot and dry, with occasional chills, mostly up and down the back
On awaking, 3 a.m., flashes of heat; feeling as if sweat would break out
An uncomfortable burning all over surface, esp. face; moves to cool part of bed; finally rises, opens window and washes
Typhoid and cerebral forms of fever
Beginning of typhus when the so-called nervous symptoms predominate; causes sweat to break out and relieve; typhus; critical sweat on forehead and face
Fever originating from confinement on shipboard, without good care or food
Fetid sweat.